On Oct. 16, a student told security of graffiti found on the inside of a bathroom stall on the third floor of the library building.

The message referenced the “stealing of Palestine’s land” and called for Jews, Israel and its supporters to “burn in hell,” alongside other hateful statements.

University staff covered the writing when it was first reported and had it removed Monday.

President Sheldon Levy issued a statement condemning the act and confirmed the Toronto police were investigating.

The RSU’s petition cites other incidents on campus, including a vandalized poster found in the multi-faith area of the Ryerson Student Campus Centre — again targeting Jews — and messages targeting Muslims scrawled on posters during February’s RSU elections.

“We cannot wait around for another incident like this to occur,” the petition reads. “We, as a community, need to stand together and show these ignorant perpetrators that this will not be accepted.”

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Steven Goetz
Steven Goetz is a news editor at The Ryersonian and a freelance reporter and photographer in Toronto and Kincardine, Ont.
His writing and photographs have appeared in Metro, the Toronto Sun, Owen Sound Sun Times, Kincardine News, Hanover Post, Shoreline Beacon, Wiarton Echo, Lucknow Sentinel, OpenFile, and the EyeOpener.
He is currently completing a journalism degree at Ryerson University, where in 2011 he was awarded the Thomson Reuters Award for most promising newspaper reporter.

One Comment

We stand as one against hate.
Love for all, Hatred for None.
Stop the violence, at our age we should be the generation taking out any of the uneducated hate riots that were present before. As educated Canadian citizens it is shocking to see that people still arrive with such barbaric language and mindsets (in a University).